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Homology is a central concept of comparative and evolutionary biology, referring to the presence of the same bodily parts (e.g., morphological…
Homology (Biology)MorphologyIn 1830, a dispute erupted in the halls of lÕAcad mie des Sciences in Paris between the two most prominent anatomists of the nineteenth century.…
EssayAnimals--ClassificationCuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832AnatomyBiological EvolutionBiology textbooks are everybody's business. In accepting the view that texts are created with specific social goals in mind, I examined 127 twentieth…
TextbooksBook IllustrationsPictorial WorkPublicationsIn 2004, the South Korean geneticist Woo-Suk Hwang published what was widely regarded as the most important research finding in biotechnology that…
ethicsInformed consent (Medical law)Scientific MisconductFraud, ScientificScientific DishonestyThis is a project about medicine and the history of a condition called premenstrual syndrome (PMS), its “discovery” and conceptual development at…
Premenstrual syndromeScience in literatureMedicine in literatureReproductionBy questioning methods of sex selection since their early development, and often discovering that they are unreliable, scientists have increased the…
Sex PreselectionSex SelectionEthics, MedicalMedical EthicsethicsThe objective of this project was to determine the importance of informed consent laws to achieving the larger goal of dismantling the right to…
Abortion--Law and legislationInformed consent (Medical law)Patient RightsPatients' RightsethicsOnce perceived as an unimportant occurrence in living organisms, cell degeneration was reconfigured as an important biological phenomenon in…
Cell DeathCells--AgingCaenorhabditis elegansAging, CellCellular AgingComputational tools in the digital humanities often either work on the macro-scale, enabling researchers to analyze huge amounts of data, or on the…
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